Waited weeks for this and was so excited it finally arrived today. Unboxed it, put it on charge, and....nothing. Won't boot up, no signs of life. He's dead, Jim.

Now I have to send it back and wait who knows how long if I want a replacement. Probably just going to ask for a refund; I can't wait another 4-6 weeks or wait for one to ship from the September batch. Ugh!

Mildly infuriating, highly disappointing.

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[–] 147 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You got the extra minimal version at no additional cost, how lucky.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Sounds pretty minimal to me

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Not sure if it will help but sometimes charging overnight on a 5W charger can get it going if the battery is just really dead. Probably the easiest way to ensure you're getting 5W is a USB A to C cable connected to a PC or laptop. If you have an older wallwart with a USB A port it's probably 5W charging as well. Could be worth a shot before sending it back.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Has one of the worst repairability indexes ever. Get another phone.

    Edit: my bad, that's the Nothing Phone.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    The Minimal Phone features a tactile QWERTY keyboard, expertly designed for efficient typing and ease of use; making it ideal for productivity and everyday Communication.

    😅 Should we enlighten them about other layouts?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah! Where's my Dvorak mobile tactile keyboard?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I will say, as a Dvorak user, I think it would be awful for mobile. I don't know the mathematics for calculating it but Dvorak assumes four fingers per hand spread evenly across the keyboard.

    I wonder what the most efficient layout would be for single digit letter pecking. I can imagine it would be different to both Dvorak and Qwerty, but what exactly it would be I don't know. Maybe separating most likely next letters by side and having some consistency of vowels on one side, consonants on the other, but all of the stuff about rolls and sequences would be completely changed. Maybe differently sized buttons for more common letters, or reducing the number of shown letters to have a few flick letters that you swipe in a direction to get them? Maybe just having the top ten most common letters displayed as single buttons and then the remaining 16 as four swipe keys?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I'm a colemak typer and I switched my phone to it to help when I was learning and it actually works really well since it emphasizes alternating hands it makes thumb typing pretty fluid. It does also tend to have some finger rolls which really just feels like tapping as you move your fingers back to the middle of the keyboard.

    Not to say there aren't better, I was just surprised how well it worked

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sangaline/DGHP and NALMY come to mind. The first tries to optimise for uniqueness of gestures and the second for distance travelled, both meant for hand gliding typing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    MessagEase is a nice keyboard built for mobile devices, using 9 keys for typing with swiping to access some of the letters.

    Numbers and special characters can also be accessed without having to switch mode.

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    I gotta say, at first glance it looks terribly inefficient compared to glide typing on even regular QWERTY.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Out of the loop here. Is this that new trump phone?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What about “minimal” made you think Trump?

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